Slay the Princess is a weird game. We’re going to start with that right from the opening. You are in the woods, on a path, and a narrator tells...
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Children of Silentown
…you’ll love this mysterious village Stay quiet. Do as you’re told. DON’T go into the forest. These are the rules for the Children of...
Darkside Detective
A throwback to an earlier era The Darkside Detective is a point-and-click mystery game very much in the vein of the old Police Quest series...
Dispatch
Dispatch burst onto the scene with a novel premise in an oversaturated superhero market. You play as Robert, a.k.a. Mecha Man, a superhero who...
Dwarf Fortress – now with UI!
The Dwarfiest Dwarves Who Ever Dwarfed, Now Accessible to Non-Zealots Dwarf Fortress is the quintessential fortress management game. A two-person...
Diablo: Point, Click, Loot, Repeat!
Though others came before it, 1997’s Diablo redefined and became the exemplar of the Action Role-Playing Game (ARPG) genre. ARPGs are...
Whispers of a Machine
An inventive puzzle game with a “killer” plot…PLUS cyber tools One of my guilty pleasures is the murder mystery. One or more people are dead. We...
Truberbrook: Twin Peaks meets Fringe
Truberbrook is a point-and-click mystery game set in a quaint little town in the mountains of Germany. And by quaint, I mean batshit crazy. It’s an...
Stellaris
I'm battling cyborgs, building Dyson spheres, and corrupting primitive societies with advanced tech... I can't be the only gamer around here, can I?...
What If More Video Games Were Text-Based
I am old enough to remember Zork—the original text-based versions before they came out with graphics-enabled editions. It was an entirely different...